Single-player games like Crime Investigator
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Crime Investigator, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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The Twisting Trail of Clues
Single-player alternative to Crime Investigator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
The Twisting Trail of Clues is a captivating and thrilling modern-day murder mystery. Set in a bustling city, the story follows detective Emma as she tries to solve a seemingly impossible case - the murder of a prominent businessman by a mysterious secret society.
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BigBoy - Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Crime Investigator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
Witness to the sections of BigBoy's life sucked into a vortex of crime. Is there divine justice?This is the prologue of the story.
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Murder On The Island
Single-player alternative to Crime Investigator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
Murder on the Island is a Visual Novel story, which takes place on a beautiful tropical island, where one of the 14 vacationers found murdered. Paul Parker, the owner of the island has only one week to find out what happened on the first night.
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The Choice VR (선택VR)
Single-player alternative to Crime Investigator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
DEXTER STUDIOS' 3RD VR WEBTOON! A CONJOINED TWINS, HA-EUN AND YE-EUN, BORN WITH A SHARED HEART! WHO WILL … WIN THE HEART?
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Aberration
Single-player alternative to Crime Investigator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
Aberration, a point & click thriller experience that will lead you down a rabbit hole of suspense, fear and misdirection. Roam through the creaking halls of an abandoned mansion, with secrets buried in the walls. Trudge through a muddied farm property and find what's hidden amongst the hay.
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피랍 일지 - 그 남자로부터의 탈출
Single-player alternative to Crime Investigator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
어떻게든 돌아갈 거야. 가족이 기다리고 있는 집으로.
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The Accuser and The Abyss
Single-player alternative to Crime Investigator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Crime Investigator.
You are a detective. You have been assigned a partner to investigate a horrid case. But things are not what it seems. Navigate the paths as you attempt to unravel the truth behind your lost memories and your new disturbing detective partner.
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Quinn & Flynn
Single-player alternative to Crime Investigator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
A mature queer visual novel, telling the heated and convoluted story of the love triangle between Quinn, an obsessive police detective, Elias, Quinn's direct superior, and Flynn, a poet with a very talented tongue, caught in a criminal case that spirals rapidly out of hand.